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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

but is practically mere tool of
the invaders. The American consul
general and British consul protested,
of course, but were told that war was
now in progress and civil measures must
wait. The latter two positively refuse to
recognize Tamasesee and have issued o
protesting proclamation. For many days
both foreigners and natives in Apia were
in great terror, as the rebel troops held
the town at their mercy; but when the
monthly steamer left no one had been in
jured Meanwhile the Germans have
burned one considerable coast town, cap
tured bush village in the interior and
killed perhaps a dozen natives. Such is
the peculiar condition Mr.. Bayard's peace
commissioner finds in Samoa, and so the
matter may become one of grave inter-
national complications.
We present portraits of King Malietoa
and his principal speaker, which show the
native type very well. The Samoans are
of about the same height and build as
Americans, of n dark olive color, with
straight hair, good features and pleas
ing cast of countenance. All travellers
and early explorers speak of the wonder
full contrast between them and the savage
Feejeeans, their neighbors.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Capt. John Donohue, known
among his friends and familiars, as
the Wild Irishmann of Doddridge
county, and Mrs. Virginia Human,
a handsome widow, OF Grafton, were
married Thursday morning at Graf.
ton, according to the rights of the
Catholic Church. The friends of
the Captain will congratulate him
and his fair bride, and hope that
not ripple may disturb their sea
of matrimonial bliss, and that their
honeymoon may end only when their
existence ceases here on earth.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

TIFFIN, OHIO, October ~ At a
funeral near Sycamore to-day the
team attached to the hearse ran
away, and the vehicle was reduced
almost to kindling wood. The coffin
was dashed to the ground, the lid
torn off and the corpse rolled into a
ditch by the roadside. Other teams
took fright and a general panic en-
sued. Women tainted, men jumped
from the carriages, wagons were
overturned, horses became entan-
gled in the general wreck, and sew.
eral persons were more or less Seri-
ously injured. The Rev. Mr.. How
ellis, who was to have conducted the
funeral exercises, was perhaps fatal
~ injured.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

The Tortilla mines so extensively
advertised, turn out to be worthless.
Newspaper publishers have received
offer after offer for the last six
months, of stock in exchange for adj
vertising, and marked copies of the
leading city papers were sent as in
ducements. They were well paid,
anG deceived many poor people into
paying good money for worthless
stock. To the credit Of the country
press be it said that few were de-
ceived. Had the stock been good,
the poor people would have had no
chance to purchase.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Nick MADEIRA has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree
at Morgantown. for killing of Emma
Robinson. Penalty, life sentence.
The evidence was circumstantial.
Whiskey was the strongest witness.
Public opinion the next. So many
murders had been committed that
an example had to be made. 1t
would be better did the law punish
as it went,-first come first served.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
ISLANDS OF SAMOA.
OF GERMANY'S TROUBLE
IN THE CORAL ISLANDS.
General Description of the Natives, Their
Customs aud Costurnes-Picture of Apia,
the Capital, and the King and His
Orator-Afap of the Islands.

system by seizing on whatever valuable
islands England has neglected.
Having settled his recent misunder-
standing with France, ''stood off, the Rus
slams for the present, compromised with
the pope and enlarged the regular army,
Bismarck has leisure to prosecute his long
cherished design of getting possession
Of the Samoan Islands. The latest news
from those islands of the blest and lazy
10y the monthly steamer to San Francisco,
which left Samoa Sept. 15) is that King
Malietoa and all his loyal chiefs and war
riors are in the mountainous interior, in
hostile camps while a rebel chief holds
the coast and capital supported by the
German fleet and directed by the German
consul. Unless other nations interfere
we may expect to learn, early in 1888,
that all Samoa is German insular prov
ince, so the history and statistics of the
island are well worth looking into.
Samoa, better known as the Navigators'
Islands, consists of a group of nine islands
in the South Pacific ocean, ON latitude 10
degs. and IA dogs. south and stretching
from l69 dogs. to 173 degs west longitude.
The nine inhabited islands contain but
1,125 square miles and scarcely $4,000
native inhabitants; but the level lands
are OF great fertility, the harbors are COM
modious and the climate delightful-so
there is room for vast development.
And as the best harbor is on the direct
route from San Francisco to Australia,
the English and Americans think they
have some rights in the settlement of
ownership Apia, the capital, shown
in the initial letter cut at the
head Of this article, is situated on
this harbor, and has a native population of
200 or 300, with about 100 white foreign
ers; there all the consuls reside, and there
the king and his officers generally lived
till the Germans chased them into the
mountains. There are extensive mission
airy establishments on the islands, and
most of the business is done by German
firms, with headquarters in Hamburg.
The mercury rarely rises above So
degs., and never falls below So
dogs; the usual range for the year
is but Is degs. The soil is enriched
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.

to have been done to German trad
ers. There was another protest,
and Bismarck disavowed the consul's ac-
ton. Again in January, 1886, the Sa-
moan flag was hauled down by some Ger
man sailors and no PREPARATION made. A
German feet Of four ships arrived in May,
but the feeling was too hostile to admit OF
friendly intercourse with the king, who
applied to Mr.. Greenebaum, the American
consul. The latter, with the full appro-
val of all other consuls and all foreign
residents except the Germans, hoisted the
American flag over the Samoan and as
sumed 4 temporary protectorate. AS soon
IS our government could confer with
Mr.. George H. Bates, of Wilmington,
Del, as commissioner to Samoa, with full
power to confer with other national COM
missioners and settle the little kingdom
on n permanent basis, to be guaranteed
by the great powers.
But the Germans did not choose to
wait on slow processes, and on the
10Th of August their four ships of
war landed in front of the gov
eminent house at Apia and made mil
ieaA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Lie herman
consul, Becker, demanded of the king
$3.50 and an ''Ifa''-a form of apology
which is freely translated, ''Crawl on tie
belly and lick the dustn The king re-
piled that he would consult with his Off
Gals. Next morning 1000 marines landed
from the German ships and captured all
the arms and boats of the native soldiers;
but the king escaped to the interior. War
was formally declared by the Germans,
and they are prosecuting it with vigor-
against rocks and mountains, forests and
the vining grass of the interior jungles,
rather than against the king, who has so
far chiefly resisted by maintaining dis
lance. But as the enemy close in on him
his chiefs are beginning to fight. Mean
while the Germans have officially recog-
nized Tamasesee, the rebel chief, who is
installed in the government house as king,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
MARKERsBURG, W. VA, Oct.

MARKERsBURG, W. VA, Oct. %.
THE people of Spencer, in Roane
county, have sent out a pitiful ap-
peal to the people of the state for
aid. The-appeal states that hearl,
all of the business men have been
financially ruined, their business
property and dwelling houses being
destroyed; that the public buildings
are all gone; that a great many fam-
lilies are homeless, without any cloth.
ing except what they have on ; that
the past season has been such a
severe one on crops, that the neigh
boring farmers can do no more than
take care ofthemselves. Many fam
lilies slept out doors on Friday and
Saturday night. and many more are
subsisting on charity. The appeal
asks aid from any part of the state
in money or clothing, and requests
that it he sent to the mayor of the
city.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

All the prisoners in the Caffarel
scandal have been committed for
trial.
A battery of SIX steam boilers ex-
ploded at Ironton, killing four and
wounding twenty persons.
The county seat OF Roane county,
w. Va, has been destroyed by fire
and the greater part of the records
lost.
At a recent fire in Hankow, China,
one thousand lives were lost and
property valued at S3,O0O,000 de-
stroyed.
A conference of all labor political
organizations will be held i'll st.
Louis to form party to be known
as the National Free Soil Party.
A white man named Parrish kill
ed three colored men at Apalachico-
la, Fla, because he suspected them
of stealing his boat, though they
protested their innocence.
Henry Shaffner, aged seventy
four years, killed his wife, aged fifty
six, and then committed suicide, at
Pottsyille, Pa. They had been mar
ried only year, but that year has
been almost one continual quarrel.
Prince Victor Napoleon has issued
a Manifesto calling for a plebiscite.
1t is rumored that the Red Star
Line steamer Westernland has
foundered at sea with 400 passen.
gers and crew of 90.-Tbe ROW
Ter government was defeated on a
motion of inquiry into the Caffarel
Wilson scandal by vote of $40 to
155.
Powderly has proved himself to be
an admirable parliamentary tacti.
clan, as well as a safe and conserva.
tive leader of the Knights of Labor.
His defeat of the Anarchists, who
would have perverted the purposes
of the order, was skilfully managed,
and will undoubtedly result in
Strengthening the organization,
morally as well as numerically.
Certain people in Baltimore pre-.
tend to be very appprehensiye lest
the stories about political corruption
in that city shall injure their trade
On this point the independent Wash
ington Star very sensibly observes
Southern cities deny that they
have yellow fever. and Baltimore
Temporarily, denies that dead men
vote at its elections, solely for bust
ness purposes, to avoid a threatened
injury to trade. Clean out your
cities, eXpell fever and ballot-boS
rottenness, and trade, if temporarily
diminished, will return with the rusl
of established and increased conf
dence to its accustomed courSes.u
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

1t turns out now that the lynchlng
mob in Roane County was composed
principally of Illicit distillers who
murdered their victims to get them
out of the way as witnesses. There
is no evidence of any confessions.
The report that a Detective Of the
Eureka Agency was implicated in
the robberies is equally false. The
lynchers are guilty of more crimes
than the lynched. The blame lies
with the law,-it was unable to mete
justice to the violators of the Rev
enue laws; it failed to punish the
robbers and murderers, and as a
consequence justice ran riot.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Gen. Price, the old veteran Demo
crat, is making it lively for the other
members of the Penitentiary Board
of Directors. He shows conclusive
ly that they have been drawing mil
cage from the State contrary to the
law. Whatever may be said of the
Generals course politically he is
strictly honest and is not going to
cover up any Irregularities or dis
honesty for party advantage. And
he is one Of the kind, too, who don't
"let up" very easily when he believes
he is right. The Penitentiary Board
of Directors will shave to go" with
DIR. Bland and the rest of the "Bar
nacle" family.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1887.
Governor Church, of Dakota Ter.
ritory, has filed his annual report
with the Secretary Of the Interior.
The report is very voluminous, and
contains an immense amount of in
formation concerning the rapid
growth and development of that
wonderful land. The Governor is
exact in giving figures, and says
they have population Of 26S,477,
an increase during the last year of
6S,477, with an assessed valuation of
S157, 1854 ,365; making an increase of
over twenty per cent. during last
year. He says it is an outrage to
deprive such people of the right to
manage their own affairs, and that
the demand of Dakota must be
needed by this Congress. Govern.
or Church evidently means business,
and has the facts to sustain him.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided to hear further argu-
ments upon the application for a
writ of error in the case of the con.
demned anarchists, and has set the
hearing for Thursday. The court
has also decided to allow the state of
Illinois to appear In these proceed.
ings, and has notified the Attorney
General to make his appearance III
behalf of the State.
The Republican National Com.
mlttee will meet here on Dec. s, at
which time they will fix the date Tor
the National Convention. Nearly
all the large cities in the country are
clamoring for the Convention, and
possibly Chicago will win again.
1t is said that the President is
heartily glad to get home again.
During the three weeks of his
journeyings he had travelled 1900
miles. passed through seventeen
States, and been greeted by over
five millions of American people.
Washington Is very desirable
place Of residence for young men
ambitious Of becoming lawyers or
law students. The large number of
libraries containing all the legal
works worth having, the great
amount of leisure time which the
average young man has upon his
hands, and the numerous law col
legeS with q modest admission fee,
all combine to offer tempting con
veniences to the disciples of Black
stone. There are three law colleges
here. each witt. a faculty composed
of the foremost lawyers and judges
in Washington, aud the registers
this year show much larger num-
Der of students than usual.
The Catholics are to build an i'm.
mense University here consisting of
seven buildings, and the aggregate
cost will be nearly ten millions of
dollars. The site selected is about
two miles northeast OF the city.
The Ohio Democrats here declare
that they will go home to vote, let
the consequences be what they may.
And SO with Virginia and Maryland.
Civil Service is being handled rather
roughly.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
The Englishman,s wav.

The English take their pleasures sadly"
somebody remarked once, and the saying
has passed into proverb which the Eng
!lsh themselves appear to accept. Think
1t is very untrue. 1t is like Sydney
Smiths LIBEL on the Scottish race. 1t re-
qrllres no surgical operation to get joke
into Scotchman's head. He may not
roar tlll the hills echo, nor shoot person
who VIII not laugh with him, as they do
IN Texas, but his quiet enjoyment of a
good joke is none the less appreciative on
that account. am beginning to think
that the English know how to enioy
themselves better than almost any other
nation. An Englishman doesn't mako
an exhibition of his enjoyment.-Luke
Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Very few people can afford to part
with their money for anything less than
its full value. Until you have thorough
ly investigated the sources of supply and
know where to get the most for your
money, it is not wise to let it slip out of
your pockets into other peoples pockets.
Many people part with their money with
out proper care or thought, but " don t
you do it,"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

The municipal election in Balti,
more was marked by some disorder
and fraud on the part Of the regu-
lars, who carried the day. Theyote
was Bartlett, Rep, 30,332 Latrobe,
Dem, 34,S57; Ogden, ITO. Latrobe's
majority was 1885. The Republi-
cans and Independent Democrats
elected eight members of First
Branch City Council and three OF
the Second. The Lake Clifton ordi-
nance was carried. Edward Daley,
a prominent figure in Democratic
politics in South Baltimore, was shot
and killed at the polls Of the ninth
precinct of the seventeenth ward, on
West street, near Leadenhall. Ed
ward Alters was charged with the
shooting aud was arrested, he denies
the charge.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

The Charleston Star says that it has
it from reliable authority that the
families of Duff and Cunningham,
who are considered by the people of
Roane and jackson counties as be-
ing two Of the best and most respec-
table families in that neighborhood,
are taking steps to prosecute the
Regulators who lynched the Duffs
and attempted to implicate the Gun
ninghams in the robbery and muir
der of Mr.. Ryan. 1t is more than
likely that few days at farthest
will develop new phases to the late
tragedy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Thirty men were killed in a fight
between Servian soldiers and Alban
ian brigands.
Severe storms are reported from
the Lake region, with great disasters
to shipping and some loss OF life.
Hon. Eli hu B. Washburne, one of
Illinois distinguished sons, died sud.
denly Saturday at Chicago.
At South Hutchinson, Kas., pc
troleum has been struck at the depth
of S02 feet, thirty.six feet below a
vein of pnre salt $50 feet in thick.
ness.
The six-yeor old daughter of Annie
Wright, sporting woman of Nash
vile, says her mother and two other
women murdered an old man named
j. +. Howard, whose body was found
a day or two ago under railroad
trestle.
A bronze statue of Abraham Lin
coin was unvailed in Lincoln Park,
Chicago, Saturday in the presence
of 5000 persons. Little ABE nLin.
cold, grandson of the President,
drew the cord which removed the
covering.
A farmer in Georgia has an old
hen that, until recently, was decided
ly white. Not long since she began
moulting, and every white feather
that dropped out was replaced by
black one, aud now Biddy is clothed
IN sombre black from bill to tail.
At Riverside, Texas, last Sunday
evening, one hundred Mexicans and
negroes engaged in battle in which
pistols, knives, sticks and stones
were freely used. Three negroes re-
ceived serious wounds, while many
others we're slightly injured. One
Mexican was killed and two fatally
wounded. Whiskey.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
Ere1NthiMg

is big word in store keeping, 10 keep
everything men, women and children
wear Except ladies hats) of the finer,
medium and common grades, means
something big. If the readers will walk
down one aisle and up the other in the
Updegraf stores, distance of four hun
dred and forty feet, looking at the piles
of goods on each side, and read the black
boards, telling what they are and the
prices at which they are sold, they will
naturally conclude that here is the place
to find everything and anything that
people wear at the lowest prices, and
that the advice given don't you buy
until you examine them is worthy of
their time and attention.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
A Gift for All

In order to give all chance to test it,
and thus be convinced of its wonderful
curative powers, DR.. King S New Discov-
cry for Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
will be, for limited time, given away.
This offer is not only liberal, but shows
unbounded faith in the merits of this
great remedy. All who suffer from
coughs, colds, consumption, asthma,
bronchitis, or any affection of throat.
chest or lungs, are especially requested
to call at E. G. Williams, Jr., & Bro. s
drug store and get trial bottle free
Large bottles 81.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Major Randolph Stalnaker, late
democratic secretary of State, now
says West Virginia will go repnbli-
can in 'SS, if tariff is the sole issue
in the campaign, and adds, 81 have
been democrat ever since | came
out of the Confederate service, in
1866, aud have done allin my pow
Ell to contribute to democratic con-
tinnence in my state, out if demo
Gratis of my state are to ally them
selves to Mr.. Carlisle with reference
to popularizing his free trade here
sizes do not propose to act with
them longer. West Virginia's de-
velopment and free trade are not
concurrent ideas. Protection is the
only unqualified and absolute key to
the problem of our development, aud
on it hinges all of our hopes. With
it We may hope to approximate, even
equal Pennsylvania; without it we
will be forever in a condition of help.
leSSneSS,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

sih CHARLES TuPPER. and there are vet
many unsettled questions of law. He filed
the place with great credit and to the gen
eral satisfaction. He was afterward made
high commissioner from Canada to Eng
land, and still later minister of finance. His
experience therefore peculiarly qualities
him to serve Canada on so delicate and
difficult matter as that of the fisheries.
He visited Washington last May and COLI
ferred with Secretary Bayard on the SUBJ
ject. He is in politics Conservative
c'Tory'1 and firm supporter of the policy
of Sir John Macdonald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
" Don't Yi0ss DO IT,

No matter If the Undegraffs store is
out OF the way. No matter il it costs
you days travel and some expense to
reach it. we predict that the information
gained in thoroughly examining the
goods and prices in this store will amply
repay your expenses and time, to say
nothing of the money saved in making
your purchases. We repeat, when you
are ready to buy anything or everything
people wear, fine, medium or common
quality. don't you do it until you have
carefully examined the goods and prices
IN the Updegraf stores at Hagerstown,
Nd.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29
ReneWS Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth of which is vouched for
by the residents of the town: 6 am 70
years old, have been troubled with kid
ney complaint and lameness- for many
years could not dress myself without
help. Now am free from all pain and
soreness, and am able to do all my own
housework. owe my thanks to Elec-
trio Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, only SOC. at E. C.
williams, Jr., & Bros Drug Store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

John Divine, the private soldier
who won the Victoria cross by lead
ing the stormTng party to the cap
ture of the Cashmere gate at Delhi.
is receiving pension of ten pence a
day, and an effort is being made to
have the amount increased. He lost
a leg in the affair, and though sixty
four years old, he has to peddle fish
from donkey cart at Penzance.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-10-29

Compels people to wear clothing and it
takes money to get clothing. With the
present low prices for farm products and
labor, it is just as much ones duty to
buy where they can get the most and
best for their money, as it is to labor or
till the soil, in order to get money with
which to supply their wants. Some
people are foolish enough to think and
act otherwise, but don't you do it.